Archives

Pollen Music Group & Google Spotlight Stories has released a behind-the-scenes video detailing their process scoring the music for the first VR project to receive an Oscar nomination and one of the first to win an Emmy, Pearl. The four-minute video (watch here: https://youtu.be/EirRYlGnROs) details how Alexis Harte, Scot Stafford, and JJ Wiesler of Pollen…

Visual Effects Society (VES), the industry’s professional global honorary society, named acclaimed writer-director-producer-actor Jon Favreau as the next recipient of the VES Lifetime Achievement Award in recognition of his valuable contributions to filmed entertainment. The award will be presented at the 16th Annual VES Awards on February 13, 2018 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel. The VES…

By: Marjorie Galas This is a reset. You get to start over. The masterminds behind Oculus VR spent a great deal of time contemplating what “this is a reset” meant to them. While some may see the virtual reality landscape as the wild west of storytelling; a lawless land where narrative runs amuck, Oculus VR came…

By: Marjorie Galas Virtual reality, or VR as it’s more commonly known, has been around for years. It made its way into the social consciousness in the 80s but couldn’t maintain a stronghold primarily because the technology couldn’t produce visuals that excited the audience. With the advent of improved computer graphics, camera and display technology…